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Shaun Abrahamson
Managing Partner at Third Sphere
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Shaun Abrahamson is the Managing Partner at Third Sphere, where he excels in investing in and advising start-ups across various sectors like Manufacturing, Real Estate, and CleanTech. With a background in strategy and product development, Shaun has successfully invested in companies like ChargeLab and Covetool, showcasing his expertise in nurturing and growing early-stage ventures.
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2013 - Current
Third Sphere works for founders transforming global systems. We’ve made over 100 investments in notable firms like Cove Tool, OneWheel and Bowery Farming. We’re usually a pre-customer investor and offer traditional venture as well as credit finance, along with coaching and connections to over 12,000 customers, investors focused on re-imagining our planet. Our team is ranked in the 99th percentile of climatetech investors on NFX Signal, and Techcrunch named us one of the top 10 VCs founders love the most.
Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.
Board Member
2022
Future Motion is a manufacturing company that designs and manufactures self-balancing electric skateboard.
Raised $3,830,000.00 from Paul Crandell, DSCN Capital, Lighthouse Capital Management, Deshe Holdings and Third Sphere.
Board Member
2020
Covetool is a B2B SaaS company that helps make buildings energy efficient while saving on construction costs.
Raised $36,750,000.00 from FootPrint Coalition, Third Sphere, Mucker Capital, Knoll Ventures and Coatue.
Board Member
2016
Kelvin is an energy management and electrification platform for radiator-heated buildings.
Raised $35,907,613.00 from Elemental Impact.
Investment Committee
2017 - 2021
The Third Sphere team ran the leading accelerator for startups upgrading cities for climate change founded by BMW MINI. This included selection and coaching of all teams from cohort 3 to 10. We reorganized around partner-led weekly advisory sessions versus a mentor-led model. Produced all workshops and educational materials including playbooks for customer discovery, traction and growth. We increased graduation rates to over 85% - successful fundraising completed after the program. Prior cohorts were at 35%. Many programs celebrate 50% graduation rates.
The platform for startups reimagining city life. Built by @MINI.
Board Observer
2019 - 2021
Toggle is a construction company.
Raised $14,770,000.00 from New York Ventures, Global Brain Corporation, New York Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Castor Ventures, Blackhorn Ventures and 27V (Twenty Seven Ventures).
Advisor - Future of Urban Development & Services Initiative
2016 - 2018
Founder and Seed Investor
2007 - 2014
Pre-seed tech investment including: ZocDoc, Public, CrowdTwist (acquired by Oracle), Bluebottle (acquired by Nestle), Refinery29 (acquired by Vice), TrialPay (acquired by Visa), Modria (acquired by Tyler), Jovoto (acquired by Talent House), Sense Networks (acquired by Yellow Pages), Retrofit (acquired by Livongo), Mealku (acquired by Morsum), Care at Hand (acquired Mindoula), Everest, Holstee, Stylyt, Minbox, Soma, Spuni as well as multiple seed funds.
Founder and CEO
2007 - 2013
Mutopo worked with organizations to organize internal and external communities (then more commonly referred to as crowds) to find and evaluate ideas and talent. Some of the best known work focused on problems like energy efficient real estate (www.lifeedited.org), paper waste reduction (www.thebetacup.com with Starbucks) and affordable housing (www.300house.com).
Co Author
2012 - 2013
How do you work with 1000's of people to get the best ideas? Part II never became a book, but rather events, blog posts and playbooks as part of Urban Us.